{"id":1926,"date":"2018-09-20T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:46:29","slug":"what-to-expect-from-sitefinity-11-1-beta-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-sitefinity-11-1-beta-release","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect from Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-sitefinity-11-1-beta-release\/#A_Look_at_Whats_New_in_the_Sitefinity_111_Beta_Release\" title=\"A Look at What\u2019s New in the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release:\">A Look at What\u2019s New in the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release:<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-sitefinity-11-1-beta-release\/#Who_can_Get_the_Sitefinity_111_Beta_Release\" title=\"Who can Get the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release?\">Who can Get the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/what-to-expect-from-sitefinity-11-1-beta-release\/#Sign_up_our_Newsletter\" title=\"Sign up our Newsletter!\">Sign up our Newsletter!<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sitefinity is a popular and feature rich CMS for business of all sizes looking for best website performance. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Upgrading your website to the latest Sitefinity CMS version<\/em><\/span> ensures that your site has the best features and functionalities that it has to offer. Two days ago, the beta version of Sitefinity CMS11.1 has been released and it has come up with latest revisions and improved features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here in this blog, we will discuss some of the details that are to be included in the planned beta release and how it can be useful for your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Look_at_Whats_New_in_the_Sitefinity_111_Beta_Release\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 18pt;\">A Look at What\u2019s New in the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release:<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Improved Review and Workflows<\/strong>:<\/span> It is now easy to define your workflows to 3 levels deep for a set of website pages or content types from a specific site or language.\u00a0 A summary note can be added while submitting a review by the editor. It is provided in the notification email to the approvers and also in the sidebar, depending on the history of the item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/dedicated-sitefinity-developer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sitefinity-Developers.jpg\" alt=\"Hire-Sitefinity-Developers\" width=\"823\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sitefinity-Developers.jpg 823w, https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hire-Sitefinity-Developers-300x36.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">All the notifications are much more improved with options like submission, rejections and approvals. Reviewers now have the skip option and can reject the content if they think so.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Distributed Cache<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0 This uses Redis, MemCache, AWS DyanoDB, SQL Server and this helps to improve the performance of your Sitefinity website in NLB configurations. The cached content will help to reduce the startup time of the Sitefinity servers and this will allow the organizations to scale up faster with some additional web servers that will help to reduce the warm-up time.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Support for Bootstrap<\/strong> <strong>4<\/strong>:<\/span> All the exciting features of Bootstrap 4 are available to Sitefinity frontend developers. In addition to this, the Bootstrap resource package comes with accessibility improvements like better screen readers and keyboard support. The frontend assets create an infrastructure using NPM scripts instead of the Grunt. The Front Awesome solid SVG icon sprites replace the Image sprites.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Improvements in the Open ID Connector<\/strong>:<\/span>\u00a0 The latest improvements enable the IT Administrators to map an external authentication in emails, first and last name to Sitefinity users. This allows support for Azure AD and Azure AD B2B. the address can now be optional via the email address settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><b>Also Read:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><a href=\"\/blog\/get-to-know-the-latest-features-of-sitefinity-11-2-release\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Get to Know the Latest Features of Sitefinity 11.2 Release<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Improvements in Multilingual Content Editing:<\/span><\/strong> The latest features allow the editorial team to easily work on translations of the same content simultaneously, unlike how Sitefinity locked the content items for each language individually. In addition to this, the related content items can also be translated directly and concurrently from the content editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 40px auto; border: 2px solid #f46f25; padding: 20px 25px; border-radius: 6px; background: 0;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 62%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Are You Looking Sitefinity Migration Service?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 36%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"padding: 10px 22px; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; cursor: pointer; color: #ffffff; background-color: #f46f25; -moz-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; display: block;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/sitefinity-migration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call us today!<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Some Other Improvements Include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The geolocation database is upgraded to the latest version and this ensures continuous service once the vendors update their databases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Easily analyze the impact of the web content by tracking the content touchpoints in your Sitefinity website. With this, it is easy to understand which content has a greater impact on the conversion rates and helps to optimize marketing efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The system status Widget on the dashboard displays crucial system errors that are related to Site Sync, NLB set up and this allows the Administrators to detect and troubleshoot various issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Enhanced control of the website crawling process by the search engines. The public comments are now screened and a no follow attribute is added to some specific outgoing links that are not part of the website domain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_can_Get_the_Sitefinity_111_Beta_Release\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000; font-size: 18pt;\">Who can Get the Sitefinity 11.1 Beta Release?<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Existing <strong><a href=\"\/sitefinity-development\/\">Sitefinity CMS<\/a> <\/strong>users having active maintenance are only eligible to take part in the Beta program and it is provided to the customers through their accounts. In order to get the Beta installation, you have to login to <span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cYour Account\u201d<\/span> and then switch to the Beta tab page. 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